As can be seen, the top floor had a fire, the evidence shows with the discoloration on the upper parts of the windows, the rusting and missing pieces from the sheet metal cornice. Likely the fire is what finally did the building in, it was abandoned for a number of years and finally demolished.
The reader may like to compare this with another building on E 9th st., also erected in 1898 and may have been designed by the same architect (George Pelham.) The brick design of alternating patterns of 7 courses of regular brick, and 2 courses of chipped textured face brick, the corbelled brick design on the upper floors, one floor of arch top windows and so forth are very similar.
I am building a model of the front top two floors of this building in 1/12 scale.
The model has individual bricks cut from cherrywood, real wood windows and sculptured keystones etc. A couple of photos of it's progress appear below; 
Bricks, cornice bracket and window frame strips and below I kit-bashed some Lawbre egg & dart molding for a component of the top cornice horizontally just above the 1898 date panel.
More photos will come soon, and as the model progresses I am now thinking of adding the lower 3 floors, the ground floor originally had a store.
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